Background: Infertility-related stress can profoundly affect the marital satisfaction of infertile couples. Resilience serves as a coping resource, and can efficiently manage psychological stress. Objective: This study aimed to investigate whether resilience mediated the association of infertility-related stress with marital satisfaction. The hypothesis suggests that resilience would play a mediating role in the association of infertility-related stress with marital satisfaction. Sample: The study was conducted in Karachi, Pakistan from September to December, 2023 in which 40 married couples (40 husbands, 40 wives) with the age ranged between 20 to 40 years, were selected from the Gynecology and Obstetrics departments of various hospitals and infertility clinics in Karachi, Pakistan, by using a purposive sampling technique. Material and Method: Brief interviews of the participants were conducted and Urdu versions of Infertility-Related Stress Scale, the Resilience scale-25, and Enriched Marital Satisfaction Scale were administered. Data analysis was performed through SPSS, V-25 for mediational analysis that was performed by utilizing the Process Macro Hayes to explore the mediating role of resilience in the association between infertility stress and marital satisfaction. Result: The results revealed that resilience fully mediated the association between infertility stress and marital satisfaction. Conclusion: This highlights that resilience mediates the link between stress due to infertility and marital satisfaction, which significantly impacts individuals’ coping with fertility difficulties. Implications: These findings would support understanding the role of resilience and inform the development of targeted interventions to enhance resilience in couples facing fertility challenges.

Rabia Mushtaq has completed her Ph.D in clinical psychology from the Institute of Clinical Psychology, University of Karachi in 2016. She is currently working as an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Clinical Psychology, University of Karachi and has responsibility of teaching and training of postgraduate students of Clinical Psychology. She has more than 10 years of teaching experience in various reputable universities in Pakistan. She has more than 13 years of experience in the field of Clinical Psychology specifically in Psychological Assessments of children, adolescents and adults including psychodiagnostics assessments, Personality assessment and IQ assessments. She has participated in many International and National Conferences held in various cities in Pakistan and presented her research papers. She has published more than 10 papers in International and National journals in the domains of mental health of nursing students, females, couple, students, and in the domain of organizational psychology. She is currently supervising several research projects of M.Phil and PhD scholars at the Institute of Clinical Psychology, University of Karachi. She has earned credentials as Internationally Certified Addiction Professional-Prevention from GCCC and has done Internationally Certified Addiction Professional- Treatment Level I from The Drug Advisor Program, Colombo Plan. She is eager to learn and is open for research collaborations.